Be Announces Next Masters Awards Competition

Be® Announces Next Masters Awards Competition

RELEASED JUNE 16, 1998

For more information contact:

Be, Inc.
Scott Paterson, scott@be.com
+1 (650) 462-4126

In Europe:
Jean Calmon, jcalmon@beeurope.com
+33 1 49 06 73 75

BE® ANNOUNCES NEXT MASTERS AWARDS COMPETITION

Application Developers to Compete for Dual-Processor Intel® Pentium® Based Personal Computers

MENLO PARK, California (June 16, 1998) -- Be, Inc. announced today the next set of Masters Awards are to be awarded on November 18th during the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. This marks Be's fourth set of Masters Awards in which over fifty awards have been presented including twenty seven dual processor development systems. The Masters Awards is an ongoing contest presented by Be to recognize developers of innovative BeOS applications. Winners in Commercial, Shareware and Freeware, and Student categories will be awarded dual processor Intel Pentium development systems.

"The Be operating system is all about the applications that take advantage of its performance." said Alex Osadzinski, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "These awards allow us to shine the spotlight on deserving developers who are bringing the next wave of interactive applications to market."

Contest rules and guidelines, along with past Masters Awards winners, can be found at the Be, Inc. web site http://www.be.com.

About Be

Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price performance.

In July 1997, Be published the first public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS), the core product of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.